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By upgrading power equipment before it reaches end of life (EOL), you get optimised reliability and may benefit from technological advances. Using EOL policies defined by your suppliers is a good way of planning for upgrade operations well in advance.

It’s great to have a scrubber that can remove SOx emissions from your vessel’s exhaust, but it’s less great if the scrubber also takes out your onboard power system. With intelligent power management, you can comply with IMO regulations, avoid blackouts – and save fuel.

Retrofits are primarily made with the intent to reduce maintenance costs, increase reliability, extend the lifetime of the vessel, incorporate new technologies, change their operational designation or compensate for perceived weaknesses in their design, save fuel and reduce emissions. Also, end-of-life of an installed product or new regulations are essential factors for performing a retrofit.

With Close Before Excitation (CBE), you can get full backup power in less than 10 seconds – with any number of gensets. The CBE feature is included with several DEIF genset controllers. Read how it works, and what other benefits it can provide.

Is there a way of ensuring controller redundancy in critical power systems in order to maximise reliability and uptime? With multi-master power management systems, the answer is a resounding YES, and you can get other value-added benefits into the bargain. Get an overview here, and the full details in our FREE whitepaper.

Do you need to develop highly customised but IEC 61131-3 compliant applications for PLC solutions? The CODESYS development environment allows you to develop a solution that fits your requirements using any combination of five different programming languages. Read more here!

Want to customise your DEIF PPU 300, GPU 300, or PPM 300? With the free CustomLogic tool, you can exploit the versatility of these advanced controllers by developing custom logic in a user-friendly ladder logic environment – without writing a single line of code.

With the built-in asymmetrical load sharing (ALS) feature on the DEIF PPM 300 controller, you can distribute the power load according to the optimum operational point of each connected genset. The result: Optimised operation, fuel savings, and cleaner emissions!

Power management is the art of matching power demand with power supply, and a power management system (PMS) can do this for you, automatically, efficiently and consistently. Get more details about what power management means in this blog post!

Can a Suzlon S88 really be brought to a standstill because of a bad pitch control cabinet? The answer is yes, and the result is costly downtime. In such cases, a retrofit solution can not only solve the problem; it can provide additional benefits. See how!